The Delta independent., 1887-04-26
TELEGRAPH BRETIT!ES.

on June n.
Boston complains that under the In
ter-State Commerce law she will lose her
foreign trade.
Samuel Shannon, of Cheyenne, has
been appointed Secretary OF State OF Wyo-
ming Territory.
Queen Kapio'ani of the Sandwich Is
lands has arrived at San Francisco on her
way to England.
A heavy snow storm almost stopped
travel on the Union Pacific between Chey-
enne and Ogden.
The Supreme Court has decided the
famous Maxwell-Grant case in favor of the
holders OF the graz
So many dead cattle are floating
down the Brazos river in Texas that pes
thence is apprehended
The Government has redeemed to
date s5,243,OOo in trade dollars, and s400,-
600 have been sent from China.
An inoendiary fire damaged the New
York Zeitung Office to the extent of SIC, 900.
The Anarchists are suspected. -
A company of troops fave been sent
to the Winnebago and Crow Reservation to
drive the settlers from those lands.
Edward A. Morely, Massachusetts
Democrat, has been elected Secretary of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
The Pennsylvania rail roadpeople say
the amount of the thefts by the Pan-lIan-
die employees will not exceed $4,000.
Lieut.. Danenhower. of Arctic fame,
committed suicide at Annapolis by shooting
himself. lie was undoubtedly insane.
The engineer of passenger train on
the New York Central road was killed by a
landslide near ST. townsville. New York.
During 1856 there were 67.00O emil
grants through German ports for the
United States. In lSs5 the number was 81
600.
The siIversmiths of Tiffany K Co.,
of New York. are on a strike. They num-
Der 80 and fifty of them have returned to
work.
Prohibition in Newfoundland failed
in the Assembly by tho vote Of t!,s Speaker
against 1t. The members were evenly di
vided.
The Dominion alliance has decided
that bill shall be introduced in the Do
minion Parliament providing for total pro
hibition.
A new plot to Kill the Car has been
discovered. 1t was intended to blow up
the Imperial train in the event of the Cars
visiting Southern Russia.
The fruit and wine trade of Califor-
mia fear the effect of the fourth section of
trade and they ask for action in their favor
About 900 stovc-mouldcrS in Cincin-
natl and 800 in Louisville are ont because
they were asked to handle boycottcd St.
Louis patterns. Other cities have joined
them.
Fourteen freight cars broke loose
from the engine in Beaver Canon. on the
Utah Northern Road, ran three miles down
the grade, jumped the track, and killed the
conductor.
Proctor Il Gamble of Cincinnati have
decided to divide their profits among their
employees after allowing the proprietorS
reasonable salaries aud 6 per cent. upon
their capital.
4 number of the Missouri Bald
KnohherS who are under arrest are anxious
TO save themselves by confessing. One has
been allowed 10 do so, but the others will
be punished.
The working men of St. Louis intend
to have an immense parade on May in com
of the eight-hour business.
They will have none but American flags in
their procession.
Major John f. Blaine. PaymaStcr in
the United States army and brother of the
Hon. James G. Blaine, is lying at the point
of death in the Army and Navy Hospital in
Hot Springs, Ark.
Alexander Mitchell. President of the
Chicago, Milwaukee n st. Paul road, died
in New York from a failure in the action of
the heart. His wealth was estimated at
from SIS, ,OoO, coo to S2S,ooo,ooo.
Wool shippers are protesting against
the suspension of the fourth section of the
Interstate Commerce law on the transcon-
tinenlal lines, and they point out the glar
ing injusticcs of former rates.
Personalities between the editors OF
two Omaha papers resulted in street en-.
counter, and Editor Rothacker is under ST.
900 bail TO answer TO the charge of assault
with intent TO commit murder on Editor
Rosewater.
The question whether the Pope would
renouncc all claims to temporal power in
Italy and thus effect reconciliation with
Italy, brought forth the reply that the Nati-
can has never thought OF abandoning the
rights of the church.
The spring wheat seeding has been
nearly completed in Illinois and Iowa, and
II is in progress in Minnesota, Dakota and
in Michigan, The ground is reported to be
in favorable condition in Iowa, Dakota
and Minnesota for the reception of the
seeds.
An alleged letter from Paruell to
Patrick Egan, apologixing for having de-
nounced the Phoenix Park murdercrs, was
published in the London Times few days
ago and created an immense sensation
Both Parnell and Egan pronounce the let